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\n A large amount of content was deleted from the media organization's Facebook and Instagram accounts.
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\n On the morning of 18 June, Meydan TV's social network accounts were the target of a digital attack. On the Azerbaijani-language Facebook page, all content going back to 2018 was deleted. Instagram was also targeted, with 2 months worth of content being deleted.\n<\/p>\n
\n Meydan TV first informed its viewers on all of its social media channels a few hours after the attack took place.\n<\/p>\n
\n This is not the first time that Meydan TV has been the target of hack attacks.\n<\/p>\n
\n On 10 May 2019, hackers gained control of the page and deleted all the content of the Russian-language page, as well as a few weeks of Azerbaijani-language content. Ar the same time, large scale DDoS attacks were launched on the website, rendering it out of service for many hours.\n<\/p>\n
\n On 29 January 2018, Meydan TV's Facebook page was attacked by hackers, and over 100,000 followers were deleted.\n<\/p>\n
\n Since the beginning of January of that year, there have been attacks on the pages and e-mail addresses of Meydan TV employees. In addition, complaints were filed against Meydan TV's YouTube account with accusations of fake copyrights.\n<\/p>\n
\n Commenting on the incident, media lawyer Khalid Agaliyev recalled that Azerbaijan joined the Convention on Cybercrime 11 years ago:\n<\/p>\n
\n "Our country has promised to take the necessary measures to classify illegal access to information systems, illegal seizure, content interference as a criminal act," he said. Seven or eight years ago, these actions were classified as a criminal act, and a separate chapter was added to the Criminal Code. "The attack on the media I mentioned above… is clearly an illegal entry, an illegal seizure, an interference in the content."\n<\/p>\n
\n Khalid Agaliyev said that the government's task is to implement the provisions of the Criminal Code, to identify and prosecute those who do so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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